Car-seat.



l Patented Sept. 4. |900. T. B. CANN.

No. 657,48I.

C A R S E A T.

(Application lled Apr. 25, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES Y' PATENT OFFICE@- THOMAS B. CANN, OF WAKEFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE HEYWOOD BROTHERS du' WAKEFIELD COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-SEAT.

SPECIFICATIONforming partof Letters Patent No. 657,481, dated September 4,1900, Appiicition naa April 25,1900. sesamo. 11,239. moineau.)

To LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS B. CANN, of Wakefield, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented eertain new and useful Improvements in Car- Seats, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to a car-seat having a reversible or swinging back, the foot-rest frame which is reversible with the back, and a seat which is also reversible in that its transverse inclination can be varied to raise that edge which is atthe front and depress the edge which is at the rear.

The invention has for its object to provide simple and efficient means whereby the reversal of the back causes also a reversal of the position ofthe foot-rest frame and seat.

The invention consists of the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciication, Figure 1 represents a top plan view of a car-seat embodying my invention, the seat-cushion being removed. Fig. 2 represents a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1, showing one of the seat-supporting slides in section.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

1 and 2 represent the end pieces of the sup? frame,which frame includes the parallel foot-- rests 8 8, attached to and extending between the cross-bars 7. Said cross-bars are pivoted at 18 18"to the end pieces 1 2 and are provided with slots 9, the end portions of which are curved downwardly, as shown in Fig. 2.

`10 10 represent levers which are pivoted at 11 11 to the end pieces 1 2, the pivots 11 being in line vertically with the pivots 8 of the foot-rest frame. The seat-back 120 is connected With the upper ends of the levers 10 by means which are well known and constitute no part of my invention. To the lower ends (which also constitute the shorter arms) of the levers 10 is aixed a rod 12, which eX- tends from one lever to the other under the seat-supporting slides 5. To the rod 12 are affixed two arms 13 13, the lowerends of which' are provided with studs 14, which enter the slots 9 in the cross-bars of the foot-rest fram e'.

The seat-supporting slides 5 are provided with shoulders or abutments 15 15, which are the ends of slots or recesses cut or formed in the under sides of these slides. The distance between the said abutments is such that the rod 12 when moved laterally by the swinging movement of the levers 10 will first move from one abutment to the other without moving the slides 5 and will then impart a sufficient movement to said slides to reverse the inclination of the seat supported by the slides.

It will be seen that when the position of the back is reversed from* the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the inclination of the levers 10 will be reversed, causing the arms 13Vto move from one end of the slots 9 to the opposite end of said slots, thus reversing the inclination of the foot-rest frame and at the same time reversing the inclination of the seat.

I claim- 1. In a car-seat, a fixed seat-frame, a reversible foot-rest frame pivoted to the seatframe below the seat thereof and comprising parallel foot-rests, and foot-restconnecting cross-bars having slots the end portions of which are curved downwardly, back-supporting levers pivoted to the seat-frame above the pivots of the foot-rest frame, a connecting-rod extending between said levers below their pivots and rigidly attached to the levers, and downwardly-projecting arms rigidly at- `tached to said rod and having studs entering 4 v the pivots of the^footrest frame, a gnneep" 2 v 'y Y, 657,481

cross-bars having .slots the end portions of which are'eurved downwardly, back-supporting levers pivoted to the seat-frame above ing-rod extending between said levers below their pivots and .rigidly attached to the levers, down wardly-projeeting arms rigidly attached to said rod and having studs entering said ythe seat-frame, and shoulders or abutments locatedat opposite sides of andl eoating with said-rod, the said,aloutpuents being separated by spaces considerabiy longer than the diam- V et er of the rod, whereby when the position of the back is reversed the rod rst moves independently from one pair of abutmeuts to the other, and then causes a reverse inclination of the seat. I

In testimony whereof I have a'ixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

THOMAS B. CANN.

Witnesses:

C. W. H. FREDERICK, C. F. BROWN. 

